January 13, 2007
HEY, THEY'RE FENCING OUT CHRISTIANS TOO:
Canada to spend $368 million to protect its border with U.S. (BETH DUFF-BROWN, 1/13/07, The Associated Press)
Canada unveiled a major border security and prosperity initiative Friday, saying it would spend more than $368 million over the next five years to protect its border from terrorist, economic and environmental threats. [...]Security experts have long criticized the lack of security measures along Canada's side of the 4,000-mile border with the United States, particularly since the Sept. 11 attacks.
Posted by Orrin Judd at January 13, 2007 11:24 AM
Stopping dual citizenship would be a huge help.
Posted by: Sandy P at January 13, 2007 2:27 PMYou said it! I have a hazy recollection that it was Nixon who changed the law allowing dual citizenship. Anyone know when it happened?
Posted by: erp at January 13, 2007 2:31 PMI don't know that Nixon did. Newly naturalized citizens in some (but not all) countries are required to renounce their previous citizenship(s); the US has such a requirement. Now if a US citizen moved to Canada and became a naturalized Canadian citizen I don't think he would be required to renounce his/her US citizenship. Canada wouldn't care that the US considered him/her a citizen and vice-versa.
...but I'm not a lawyer
Posted by: Bartman at January 14, 2007 8:43 AMhttp://www.richw.org/dualcit/faq.html#noway
It indeed used to be the case in the US that you couldn't hold dual citizenship ... However, most of the laws forbidding dual citizenship were struck down by the US Supreme Court in two cases: a 1967 decision, Afroyim v. Rusk, as well as a second ruling in 1980, Vance v. Terrazas.
Looks like the changes were on Johnson's and Carter's watch, not Nixon's. Chief Justice Earl Warren and Warren Burger presiding.
Posted by: erp at January 14, 2007 12:26 PM